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American Sniper: Is Your Adaptation Running Toward The Truth?

On this podcast, instead of thinking about movies in terms of two thumbs up or two thumbs down we like to think about movies in terms of what we can learn about them as screenwriters.  So we’re going to look at all kinds of movies. We’re going to look at good movies, we’re going to look at bad movies. We’re goin....

FURIOUS 7: Feeding The Genre Monster

On this podcast, rather than looking at movies in terms of two thumbs up or two thumbs down, we look at movies and we look at screenplays in terms of what we can learn from them as screenwriters. We look at good movies and we look at bad movies, we look at movies that we loved and movies that we hated. Today we are going to be talking about....

Jon Cassar - Top Producer/Director on 24, Fringe, Criminal Minds

Have you seen the shows, 24, Revolution, Fringe, Person of Interest, or Criminal Minds? Most of you probably have, or you’re well aware of how popular they were and are (though we're still sad Revolution was cancelled). Jon Cassar was the exec producer and director of multiple episodes on all of those shows! He’s a two-time ....

Lewaa Nasserdeen - TV Writing: From Canada to The Goldbergs

The ISA has been lucky to have hosted some wonderful guests for these podcasts, and we look forward to even more insightful and inspiring interviews, but this interview happens to be one of our more enlightening. Lewaa Nasserdeen is a staff writer on the series, The Goldbergs, and his tenacity, positivity, and overall love for the writing c....

Your Creative Life!

The blog from www.yourcreativelife.com focuses on the joys and challenges of living life as a writer. Find tips, tricks, techniques & observations from my own adventures.....

Community Films

TV Commercials. Web FIlms. Features. Welcome to Community. http://www.communityfilms.com/....

Table Read My Screenplay - Interview With Grand Prize Winner

Ed Klau was named the Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay - PARK CITY contest. The Table Read staff flew Ed out to Park City during the recent Sundance Film Festival, put him up in a posh little hotel and showed him around the beautiful ski and winter wonderland town of Park City. These were simply perks of his grand prize wi....

Story Into Screenplay

Turn Your Story Into A Screenplay....

Sierra/Affinity

Sierra / Affinity is the leading independent film finance, production, and foreign sales company which was created in January 2011 from the combination of Sierra Pictures and Affinity.....

20 Questions Film

Video interviews, contests, articles, news, reviews, opinion pieces and nifty how-to's on all topics related to filmmaking. For amateurs and professionals alike.....

LAIKA

LAIKA is an animation studio that produces features and shorts. From scratch. Our latest animated feature, The Boxtrolls, opened in theaters on September 26, 2014.....

Josselyne Herman & Associates

Josselyne began her career in 1986 as a producer for Zanders Animation Parlor, where she produced animated commercials and developed animated television programming and films. ....

Coronet Management

Coronet Entertainment is a multifaceted company that manages both talent and literary clients, plus develops and produces entertainment properties across multiple platforms.....

Crystal Sky

One of the oldest independent film production, sales, and financing companies in the entertainment business, founded in 1971 by its Chairman and CEO Steven Paul.....

S Pictures, Inc.

Chuck Simon brings to every assignment he undertakes a unique blend of marketing, management, and creative development, accumulated from an entertainment career spanning nearly 30 years....

Empire Film Group

Empire Film Group, Inc. (“EFG”) is a new independent film finance, production, and distribution company led by a management team with over 25 years of experience in development, etc.....

Leigh Savidge - Straight Outta Compton and How To Break In

Another in a long line of extremely informative interviews, Max Timm, the Director of Community Outreach for the International Screenwriters' Association (ISA), invited Leigh Savidge to discuss a rather vast array of industry elements and tidbits. From his upcoming movie, the 90’s hip-hop biopic, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (set t....

Gloria Calderon Kellett - Producer, How I Met Your Mother

A veteran TV comedy writer and producer, Gloria Calderon Kellett joined me to talk about…well, to talk about so many things! A comic and performer at heart, Gloria’s personality shined while chatting with her about the highs and lows of the TV writing world, her experiences writing on How I Met Your Mother, Devious Maids, and i....

AFI Graduate, Melissa Hoppe, and Her Award Winning Transgender Short

The term “young writer” doesn’t necessarily mean “young in age”. A young writer is simply someone who is still early in his or her career and pushing forward in their own creative growth process. Technically speaking, we as writers and filmmakers are always growing, but the more experience we gain from....